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CLEAT. Y No. 271,484. Patented Jan.30, 1883.

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UNTTE STATES PATENT Trice'.

FRANK W. LIMEBURNER, OIF BELFAST, MAINE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,484, dated January 30, 1883.

Application filed November 10, 1882. (No modeLl l'.To all 4whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK WEST LIME- BURNER, of Belfast, in the county ot' Waldo, of the State of' Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boom Attachments; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following` specilication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of Which- Figure l is a side view ofthe boom of a navigable vessel with my improved attachment applied to it. Fig. 2 is a top view, Fig. 3 a side elevation, and Fig. 4 a bottom View, ofthe attachment, While Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of it and that part of the boom to which it is fixed.

The improvement is to take the place of the usual cleat, the snatch,77 and the strap orcollar and ring as usually applied to a boom, all -ot' which are in separate pieces, and, besides, being liable to become accidentally detached from the boom and objectionable in other respects. With myinvention the whole are substantially combined and rendered much more serviceable and convenient.

In the drawings, A-denotes along cleat, provided at its rear end with an arm or hook, a, and at its front end with a hole, b, to receive an elongated ring, B, which goes through suoli hole loosely. Between the hook a and the hole b there is made laterally through the cleat a hole, o, to receive a belaying-pin, C, arranged in the cleat in manner as shown.Y

From the upper or at edge of the cleat two tenons, d d, are extended, and upward through the cleat are holes e e to receive strong screws f, for xing such cleat to the under side of the boom D.

rIhe cleat is to be made of metalas malleable cast-imm7 for instance-in which case it should he painted or covered with a plating of z inc or other metal not readily oxidizable.

ln Fig. l the boom is shown as provided with its usual ring, g, to receive the hook of a tackle-block, '1b. The opposite block of the tackle is usually hooked to a ring secured to the vessels rail. The tackle-rope is belayed on the pin after having been run around the arm or hook a, which serves the purpose ot' the usual snatch. When the tackle is not hooked to the eye ofthe rail it is to be hooked in the ring B and drawn taut about the arm or hook a and belayed on the pin. Y

ln some cases the tenons may he dispensed with; but it is preferable to have them, as by extending -into the boom they serve to relieve the fastening-screws from the great strain to which they would otherwise be subjected. By having the belaying-pin, instead of the usual double-horned cleat, firmly fastened to the boom, the pin can be removed from the part A, so as not to be in the way when the vessel may be in port.

What I claim as my invention is as Jfollows, viz:

1. The boom attachment consisting of the cleat A, provided at one end with the arm or hook a, and at the other with the ring g, and

-with the belaying-pin C, arranged between such hook and ring, all being substantially as represen ted.

2. The boom attachment consisting ot the cleat A, having` one or more tenons, d, projecting upward from it, as set- 'ox'th, and also having at one end a hook, a, and at the other a ring, g, and between such hook and ri ng a belaying-pin extended through it, substantially as set forth.

3. The boom attachment consisting of the cleat A, having one or more tenons,.d, extending upward. from it', as set forth, and also having at one end a hook, a, and at the other a ring. g, and between such ring and hook a hole c, to receive a belaying-pin, (J, all being as shown and described.

FRANK4 lVEST LIHEBURNER.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. 

